My experience is that it scales well from 1 system to 500 systems. I use it at home to monitor my old pentium 133 system and also have implemented it successfully for a managed services company to monitor 500+ systems. With too many systems to monitor I had to fine tune the system communication with SOAP, XML and Java. It really worked great. But of course -- we were set a mere consultants who implemented the project, before a hotshot ex-Motorola manager took control of the project, cancelled the the netsaint installation over Intellectual Property issue(How intelligent he could be?), signed a contract with HP for OpenView at $50000/site and bankrupt the company. After few months, he contacted me for a job oportunity in my new company. OK, that's all together another big story. Anyway it is great product and scales really well. Sundar On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:38:57 -0700 "slr" wrote: > well i was looking to monitor my exchange server, PDC, SQL server, 4 Samba > servers, 5 webservers, 3 DNS servers, my routers and switches, and 3 MySQL > servers. in this senario would netsaint be an overkill? i am trying out ntop > right now, what is your feeling about this app? > > as for NEAT, i check the netsaint.cfg and netsaint_user=contains my netsaint > user and not the apacheuser. :~( > > slr > > On Thursday 27 June 2002 03:50 pm, Lowell Hamilton wrote: > > > maybe a better question would be, is Netsaint worth the hassle? are there > > > better tools for this that are easier to setup? > > > > Depends on what you want to monitor .. if you want to check a tiny > > webserver or just a couple little hosts with the most basic checks, > > netsaint is a lot of extra hassle. Netsaint doesn't become really handy > > until you start implementing larger networks or have several hosts > > monitoring dozens of services each. I have a 5100-point of failure > > netsaint install going watching almost 100 points of failure on several > > machines, something no other opensource monitoring software could handle > > without blowing the system up or becoming unmaintainable. For small > > stuff though, hit freshmeat .. software like bigbrother would probably > > work. > > > > In regards to your problem, it sounds like NEAT set the userid in > > /usr/local/netsaint/etc/netsaint.cfg to apacheuser ... edit this file > > and make sure all the paths and users are correct for what you need. > > > > Lowell > > > > On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 15:04, slr wrote: > > > slr > > > > > > On Thursday 27 June 2002 02:14 pm, slr wrote: > > > > Ok here goes, cause i guess i am going to be one of those that will > > > > struggle. i downloaded and installed NEAT4.9 because at 1st glance it > > > > looked like it would make administration easier. i can pull up the web > > > > interface and edit the host.cfg, which BTW i couldnt do by using the > > > > httpd default group and chmod g+w host.cfg as suggested in the > > > > README.txt for NEAT. the problem now is when i try to verify and > > > > restart netsaint using the NEAT web interface i get this error msg: > > > > > > > > ERROR - userid apacheuser (this is not the real default httpd user) > > > > cannot run /usr/local/netsaint/bin/netsaint to verify your config. This > > > > is probably your httpd userid. Fix this > > > > > > > > i am not sure why it is using this apache user, it is not entered in > > > > the netsaint.cfg file. any ideas? > > > > > > > > slr > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________ > > > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't > > > > post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > ________________________________________________ > > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't > > > post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss